Nothing Phone 3, lock your number & Chuck E. Cheese grows up (128, July 6, 2025)

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How to lock down your phone number so no one
else can steal it. Nothing's New smartphone wants to replace
screen time with light shows. Chuck E Cheese is back,
but this time it's for adults. Plus your tech questions answered.
What's going on on Rich dmiro And this is Rich
on Tech. This is the show where I talk about

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the tech stuff I think you should know about. It's
also the place where I answer your questions about technology.
I believe the tech should be interesting, useful and fun.
Let's open up those phone lines at triple eight Rich
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Just go to Rich on Tech dot tv and hit contact.
This week, I'll take you to the NINA nine to
one to one conference. There you'll hear about cutting edge
technology designed to get you help faster and say more lives.
Then later Selim ben nayat Nothing's AI and Services product lead,

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we'll talk about how the company is reimagining the smartphone.
And later later later on, Trey Boj smart shopping expert
at truetrade dot com is going to share some tips
to help you get through the Prime Day, which is
happening this week. Well, I hope you're having a fantastic

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Fourth of July weekend. We got to see some fireworks,
got to celebrate with friends, and I hope you are
doing the same. It wasn't lost on me that I
was in London this week for an event by a
startup called Nothing. I thought it was very ironic that
I visited the place that I guess gave birth to
our place here in America.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
And you know, it was interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
I hadn't been to London in a long time, and
so being there the week of our Independence Day just
brought a lot of feelings in and a lot of stuff.
Think about how just think about, just for a second,
how America broke free of England.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
I mean, really think about that.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Like here, you are a place, just a collection of
these little colonies across the pond, as they say, and
this big old country that's been around forever just sort
of loses control. I mean, that must have been really
wild back in the day. Anyway, I digress. I'll share
some thoughts about London later on, but let me tell
you about Nothing. This is a company that's the name yes,

(02:32):
Nothing and the name gives you a sense of kind
of what they're all about.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
They're playful.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
It's a design oriented company that's been making phones for
about five years now. A lot of the team is
from another company is to cover a lot called OnePlus,
but the founder there branched out and went on his
own to create something new and different, and this is it.
It's called the Nothing Phone. This is specifically the Nothing
Phone three. Now, the company's made a few phones over
the years, but not many of them were for the

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US market. A lot of them were sold what's under
what's called a beta program, which means if you bought
this thing, you had to be like a tech enthusiast
because you only had fourteen days to return it and
then you were on your own, no warranty, no support.
But this new phone then Nothing Phone three will be
sold in the US market, although I don't believe they
have any direct carrier support, so you're not gonna be

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able to buy it from like a AT and T
or T Mobile as far as I know, You'll have
to buy it direct from them or from Amazon, which
is gonna make it an uphill battle for this phone,
which is a shame. Because I've been using it for
the past week and I really like it. If you're
watching streaming the show on KTLA plus, this is what
the phone looks like. It's got this really cool clear back,

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it's got a whole bunch of cameras, and even this
little display on the back they call a glyph matrix.
It's like a little dot matrix display. Remember how I
said this is a design forward company. You're either gonna
love or hate the design when you see this phone.
It also has a blinking red light on the back
when you're recording. I mean, how cool is that? Like
a nod to the old days of cam quarters, right.

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It's also a nice way in our record centric society
to let people know that you are recording video or audio.
Like I said, there's that little dot matrix screen. They
call it the glyph matrix. This is a display that
can show things like the time countdowns, but also there's
fun stuff like a spin the Bottle game. I showed
this to some folks yesterday at our Fourth of July

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celebrations and they're like, what do you mean Spin the
bottle is on that phone? When was the last time
you played Spin the Bottle I'm like, I don't know,
sixth grade, it's been a while, but let's play it tonight.
I mean, it was all adults in a lot of
us were marriage so that was kind of weird. But
there's also a magic eight ball. If the spin the bottle.
Things not your style. But this goes to show this
company is not trying to be the next Pixel, the

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next Samsung, the next Apple. They know that this thing
will either, you know, make you love or hate it
when you see it. Now, in five years, nothing has
what they say three million fans, I'm guessing they've sold
about three milli devices right from that number. Compare that
to Apple, which sells about fifty million phones every three months,

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so yeah, they sell considerably more. But back to the phone,
it's really nice. It's got a good processor, not the best,
but it's a very capable phone. I've had no problems
with it. They're actually using the latest battery technology, which
is called silicon carbon, which is really cool because not
many major phone makers are doing that just yet here
in the US. That means the battery charges faster, you
can pack more energy into a slimmer form factory form

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factory form factor. This one also charges up to uses
fast charging up to sixty five watts, while the iPhone
and Samsung are somewhere around forty five at the max.
I'm not even sure if the iPhone is that fast,
then you've got the software features. I'm gonna have an interview,
like I said a bit later in the show, to
talk about some of the reasoning behind Nothing's choices. But
this phone is built with features designed to help you

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look at it less. Yes, how's that for a concept.
It also runs a really nice version of Android. Say
it's really close to the pixel, which is one of
the reasons I love it. It's clean, It has a
lot of nice but little useful touches in it, so
they don't do a ton with the software. They just
make it very useful and very appealing to the eye.
A couple of features in this Essential Search. This is

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kind of like all your search on the iPhone, but
it's much more useful because it searches both stuff on
your phone, but when you ask something a little bit
more complicated, it will reach out to AI for an answer.
Then there's this thing called Essential Space. This is like
an AI enhanced digital notebook. It can store your screenshots,
your voice memos, and more. It uses AI to organize
it all. So far, I can't figure out if there's

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any search functionality there, which would be very helpful, but
maybe that's coming soon. Then there's this feature called flip
to Record. This is a way to record meetings. You
just press the button on the side of the phone.
They've got this dedicated key and you flip your phone over.
It will record and transcribe your meetings and give you
a summary. Now, you're limited to about three hundred minutes
for free each month, but if you're in meetings more

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than that per month, I think you need to reassess
what you're doing with your life.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
Just kidding.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
People love meetings. People love to be in meetings. I
don't know what it is about meetings, like the before
the meeting, the meeting, the after the meeting, Like just
give me the information I need and I want to
get out of my life.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
Then nothing.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
Phone three comes in white or black. Twelve gigabyte RAM
plus two hundred and fifty six gigabytes of storage.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
That model will sell for eight hundred dollars.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
Then there's a sixteen gigabyte RAM five to twelve that'll
sell for a little bit more. But here lies the problem.
This is an excellent phone. It's got three fifty megapixel cameras.
I think they look great. I took this thing around
London for an hour, snapping tons of pictures. I don't
think there's one bad one in the shop in the bunch.
I love the software. The hardware is capable. But the

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problem is no one here in the US is gonna
buy it. You know why because think about it. If
you can't get it AT and T you can't get it.
Verizon you can't get it T Mobile. That's where people
here in the US get their phones. They also like
to add their phone to their plan and divide up
the payments. This is how people buy things in the US.
If you need help with it, you can't go to
the Genius Bar. And that is all a shame because

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this funky little startup out of London is actually making
a really good phone, but it's hamstrung. Only the nerdiest
of nerds like myself and phone enthusiasts willing to pep
up their iPhone or the Pixel or maybe their Samsung,
is gonna seek this thing out. Nothing really needs something.
See what I did there to help us break out
of the smartphone rut, the treadmill that keeps us coming

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back to new iPhones every couple of years, new Samsung's,
and maybe a new pixel. But I think if someone
gets this device, they're gonna like it a lot. It
looks a little weird, I'll admit that, But isn't that
kind of fun these days? Like every phone I've tested
over the past ten years, I've taken out at parties
over the weekends, like literally day day in, day out,
Nobody cares. I show them this phone, like, oh, it's

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the new Samsung is Okay, what's it do differently? It's
got an extra it's got better cameras. Okay, Oh it's
a new iPhone. Look the screen stays out all the time. Okay,
why do I need that? No one cares. I literally,
I'm not kidding. When I had the brand new iPhone
with the always on display, this a couple of years ago.
You're not supposed to show these things to people. I
made it a point when I went to my kids

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baseball practice to put the phone face up on the
bleachers like at the game, to see if anyone would
notice why my screen was on on the iPhone. The
whole game with the time and the stuff that nobody
said it word, nobody cared. So anyway, if you put
this thing face down and people see it, they are
going to ask you questions about it, and I think
that's a good start. The Nothing Phone three is available
for pre order now, open sales start on July fifteenth.

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If you want a link to see what it looks like,
go to my Instagram at rich on Tech. I also
picked up the Nothing headphones, which are equally as weird
as well. I'll talk about them coming up, all right,
eight eight eight rich one O one eight eight eight
seven four to two four one zero one.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
My name is rich Demiro.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
We got lots ahead talking about tech, taking your questions,
tech news, all kinds of great stuff right here on
rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich
Demiro here hanging out with you talking technology on this.
Is it July fourth weekend or fourth of July? I
feel like that's a let's see July fourth versus fourth

(10:15):
of July. I know that ap style. Okay, yeah, fourth
of July, so it's not Yeah, it's not July fourth.
I mean, I guess you could say whatever you want.
By the way, I told you I went to London
this week. It was only there for two days, which
was kind of wild, very quick turnaround. But when I
tell you that travel is so automated now, I don't

(10:38):
think I had to interact with one person on the
entire way from LA to London. And it's all automated
where you basically scan your passport or your face. I mean,
it's really wild that you just go through these systems
now that are just all automated, Like both here and
when I got to London, it was all completely automated.

(11:01):
The only downside I've noticed is that you don't get
a stamp in your passport because it's all automated, so
you can there was a sign on the wall that said,
if you want a passport stamp, I think you could
like go to some special window and they'll stamp it
for you.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
But I you know, it's.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
Just like the changing way of I finally got global entry,
and so I'm not kidding. When you come back into
the US, there's like an iPad that you look at
and before you even look this thing scans your face
and somehow figures out that you know and opens up
the door.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
I mean, it's really, really wild.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
It's come a long way since the days when I
was going to Japan and it would take you know,
just getting in and out would take an hour or two.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
Let's go to Cheryl in Oregon. Cheryl, you're on with Rich.
Welcome to the show. Hello Rich, Hello Cheryl.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
I'm looking for the best hardware to take videos of
edible and medicinal plants and the best software to edit
the videos. Back in the nineteen eighty I did this
and at that time I was using I believe it
was eight millimeter And things have really changed. And as

(12:07):
I'm looking at the various choices, I'm getting quite confused
as to what I really need because my needs are
really simplistic.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
They do so Okay, So that was my question. Where
are these videos.

Speaker 3 (12:22):
Living right now? They're on YouTube?

Speaker 4 (12:26):
They're very old?

Speaker 1 (12:27):
Okay, No, I mean like, where are the new videos
that are where's the videos you're making?

Speaker 2 (12:31):
Where are they going to live social media?

Speaker 3 (12:34):
They're going to be both on YouTube and on my website.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
Okay? And are you shooting in four K?

Speaker 4 (12:40):
I don't know what.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
I'm going to shoot in. Like I said, last time
I did this, I used eight millimeter and I've never
used digital for making videos, OK. And I was looking
at possibly even just using an iPhone and then using
the editing called iMovie on my iMac. Yes, but maybe
I need something that's a lie little more complicated.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
No, you do not. Don't.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
Don't complicate things when they don't need to be. I
edit video for a living, and I can tell you
my setup, and over the years it's actually gotten simpler,
which is just wild. So it is so easy to
create video for online number one. And I hang out
with a lot of YouTubers. Ninety nine point nine percent
of them shoot on their iPhone, So that's number one.

(13:23):
All you need is an iPhone and you can use
a new iPhone an old iPhone, it does not matter.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
Just get an iPhone. You'll be fine.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
And then for the hardware, like the computer, you need
some sort of MacBook so or okay, my delineation with
the laptop. If you're going to be moving around with
your computer, get a laptop. If you're not going to
be moving around, like if this thing's going to sit
on a desk, just get a desktop. You're going to
get better specs for the money, So don't buy a

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laptop if you're not going to be moving it from
the place where you're editing or doing your work. For me,
I'm traveling a lot. I'm always bringing my computer. That's
why I have a laptop. If I was sitting at
home editing all day, never leaving my desk, I would
absolutely have a desktop, because you get more bang for
your book when you go on the Apple website. There's
really two options when it comes to the laptop, So

(14:11):
I'm gonna stick to that because I imagine that's what
most people want. You've got the MacBook Pro or the
MacBook Air. I can tell you I edit video for
TV and I use my MacBook Air and it works
just fine. I've never had a problem. If you're doing
anything for social media, that's going to be just fine.
My advice is to get the most memory, like the

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most ram that you can day one, and also the
most storage that you can. And also do not get
the base processor. Get one just a little bit higher
than what they typically like, whatever the base model is
that they offer, don't get that one. Get the next
level up, okay, And then when it comes to actually
editing this video, I would recommend final cut. If you

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want to pay for it, that's what I use on
a daily basis. Final Cut Pro is really good, but
it's really simple. It's similar to iMovie. You can start
with iMovie. I think that's going to be a little
simplistic for what you want. If you want to download
cap cut to your computer, you can do that if
you like.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
That program, they offer a free program for your computer.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
Adobe also has some video editing software that a lot
of people like, Premiere Or They also have a thing
called Rush, which is a little bit more basic. So
those are two good options. And then the other thing
I would recommend is really on your phone if you
just want to edit on your iPhone. I was just
using the brand new Instagram edits app and it is

(15:35):
incredible for free, Like I couldn't believe it. Like I'm
done with cap cut now because I don't need it anymore,
and it's completely free and that works on your iPhone.
So if you just want to shoot on your iPhone
and edit on your iPhone, that's an option as well.
And then the other thing I would recommend is if
you need microphones.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
The Dji mics.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
Are pretty much the most amazing thing that I've added
to my system over the years.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
So Dji Mike two.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
This is going to give you great audio from your
you know, from your mobile setup and it plugs right
into your iPhone or they record into themselves, no wires.
When I tell you, Cheryl that this has gotten so
much easier over the years, it really has. The only
other thing I'd probably recommend is a tripod, and uh,
I've got one linked up on my website that I like,

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a brand new one I'm using. I think it's called
Ulawanzi and it's it's a really good little tripod that's
super simple, lightweight, you can carry it anywhere.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
That's what I use.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
I travel the world and this is how I record
my stories for TV and it works perfectly. It's simple,
it's easy. Don't try to get complicated unless you're making
a movie or something like that. If you're just doing
social media video videos for YouTube and your website, that
will be perfect. Thanks for calling eighty to eight rich
one on one eight eight eight seven four to two
four one zero one. Coming up, I'll tell you how

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you can lock down yourself number so no one can
steal it.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
That's coming up right here. I'm rich on Tech.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
Welcome back to rich on Tech. Well, you probably don't
think about one until you need it. But the technology
behind it is evolving and it could save more lives
if it gets more modernized. That includes texting nine one one,
also sharing your location automatically from your smartphone, which is
happening in a lot of places. The goal, of course,
is to make emergency response faster, smarter, and more effective.

(17:30):
So recently I attended the National Conference where first responders,
tech companies, and policy makers gather to discuss the future
of nine one one and what it means for you
to start. I spoke with Dale Curtis of the NINA
nine one one association they put on the conference. He
represents the twenty five thousand people across the country who
pick up that call when you need help.

Speaker 5 (17:51):
So NINA represents twenty five thousand people who work in
nine one one all across the country. There are six
thousand emergency calls in this country. Almost every community or
county has one right so it's the people who answer
the calls, manage the calls, do the supervising, the training,
and provide the technology.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
And what are some of the challenges facing nine to
one one in our country?

Speaker 5 (18:15):
The perennial challenges in nine to one one are people, technology,
and then funding and leadership, so there's lots of issues
with recruitment, retention and taking care of those hardworking people.
The technology, most number one centers are still using what
we call legacy nine one one, which means you call them,

(18:36):
you have a voice conversation. But there's a new technology
called Next Generation nine one one, which is based on
Internet and data protocol, so everything your smartphone can do.
The NNAL one center ought to be able to do photos, videos,
precise location. You could have your pre configured emergency medical

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information that could go on ammatically to NOMAL one. All
those kinds of things that your your phone can do
and we take for granted. But legacy no one one
is just a voice conversation. Most places, you can send
a text to nine one one. We always say call
if you can, but text if you can't. Kidnapping situation
or a domestic abuse situation, or you're afraid of making

(19:21):
any noise, you can send a text to nine one
in most places.

Speaker 2 (19:24):
Today.

Speaker 6 (19:24):
America needs Next generation nine one one.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
They need it everywhere.

Speaker 6 (19:28):
You should get the same service, whether you're calling from
Long Beach, California, or Long Island, New York. Everyone should
have the same standard.

Speaker 5 (19:36):
And expect to get at a fast, efficient, effective emergency response.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
And the goal of all this is what save lives.

Speaker 5 (19:44):
Ultimately, lives are at stake. Seconds can make a huge
difference between life and depth in every emergency.

Speaker 7 (19:51):
Don Berningham, I'm the executive director for the Industry Council
for Emergency Response Technologies.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
What about AI? Are we going to have AI answering
non onal one?

Speaker 7 (20:00):
Yeah, well, you'll see a lot of AI applications. A
lot of companies have already begun to implement AI as
part of their call handling system and their response systems.
We're not currently seeing that for emergency calls. We are
seeing AI used to answer non emergency calls, but certainly

(20:21):
over time we're going to see more of it in
use with emergency calls as well, and to pull other
data into the center that can be used for first responders.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
When they arrive on the sea.

Speaker 7 (20:31):
But I think what you're going to see over time
more multimedia applications with nine one one, So if you
witness a crime, you can send a picture or a
video to the center that they can pass on to
a law enforcement officer. You know, really the problem is
implementation and getting funding for it, and you'll find that
around the country there's quite a large disparity between those

(20:52):
states that have the funding to implement the technology and
those that don't.

Speaker 8 (20:57):
Jim wolf A Murder Moral Solutions. We're right in the
midst of significant evolution of technology that really accelerates the
way in which we're able to respond to a call
in a more informed manner. So when you dial nine
one one from the telephone, it goes into what we
call a peace app or public safety answering point. It's
a nine one one center. You'll have a call taker

(21:19):
that will answer to call nine one one, what's your
emergency typically what you'll hear, and they'll start gathering information
around where you located, what's happening, and they'll enter that
into the computer system and then it will pass along
to a dispatcher who will send it in a sign
and resource whether it's fire, police, or ems to go
to that call for service. So what we've seen nine

(21:41):
to one one originally started in the nineteen sixties, primarily
on a copper line that ran into a center. We
still see this a lot around the country today, where
it's a copper line running in and they use addresses
primarily to get location. Well, today we know that about
eighty percent or four out of five nine one one
calls are being made on a cellular telephone. Google and Apple,

(22:03):
we're able to send precise information so that when the
caller calls in, they're able to precisely locate that spot
on a map. It's incredibly helpful for nine to one
one centers to be able to get people to the
right spot more quickly. You know, there are ways in
which people can go into programs like smart nine to
one one dot com that allows people to be able

(22:24):
to connect valuable information to their mobile telephone number around
say allergies or maybe they have a child that has
autism and they shouldn't be touched. So information for first
responders that can be passed through regardless of where you're
at in the country. It's a tremendous resource.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
What about the keywords detected I'm seeing?

Speaker 8 (22:43):
What's the AI from a nine to one to one
standpoint really helps do some things that are revolutionary inside
of a nine one one center, For example, being able
to transcribe nine to one one calls in real time.
That's huge, And then we can index it and characterize
it in the way that we could search again to
look for words like knife, gun, shooting, bomb fire. You

(23:06):
get the example keywords where you can make automatic notifications,
so commsupervisors and other people can begin to pick up
on high risk events that are occurring now. Conversely, things
and this is common every day around the country, around
the world, is foreign language being called into a center
that's not native maybe to the call taker. So using

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AI and emerging technologies to detect the foreign languages being spoke,
to transcribe it in real time, and to provide the
call taker with information back in their native language that
allows them to make better, more in foreign choices about
who to send, how to resource that call, and how
to get people there more quickly. So, the FCCCENE recently

(23:49):
commissioned a study that estimated that in the US alone,
ten thousand lives could be saved annually with the reduction
of one minute from the time in nine to one
to one call is made until properly equipped first responders
arrive at seat. That's so, when we think ten thousand
lives annually, how can we accelerate it and how can
we produce information that delivers a more informed response, or

(24:13):
ways that technology can really help to be able to
accelerate that in ways it was never seen before.

Speaker 9 (24:19):
Nora Lagrani with Aliyrium and I am the director of
product for our new cloud call handling solution called Mira.
Mira is what we believe is the evolution of call
handling solutions. So you know, today we're getting new ways
in which people can request assistance, whether it is sensors,

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whether it is your watches, whether it is you know,
just general calling or even texting to nine one one,
and all of that comes with important information that has
to get to the first responder and the person that
is responding to the call. And what Mira does is
it helps make those connections deliver the right information at
the right time to the person that's there in all

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of the different forms that it can come in.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
There's a lot of calls that come in for say
the same things.

Speaker 9 (25:08):
So think about there is a car accident on the
highway right and there's ten twenty thirty calls. People are
driving by and let oh there's a car accident, let
me dial nine one one. That's great, but the call
takers taking that are now getting inundated with the same
calls for the same incidents, but there's also other things

(25:29):
going on, and so they have to quickly be able
to go through those calls and be able to just
tackle those. So what MIRAH can do is automatically set
up an area where we say, okay, if you're calling
from this area around this crash, we can play a

(25:50):
message that says, hey, if you're calling about the crash
on I ninety, then you know, police fire ems so
on their way, thank you so much. If you're calling
about something else, then stay on the line and then
they're added to the queue. This helps kind of filter
out those additional calls that are all around the same
thing and really focus the call takers on kind of

(26:12):
that main emergency is that are all different?

Speaker 2 (26:16):
All right?

Speaker 1 (26:16):
That was from the NINA nine one one conference, and
I know they mentioned that website in there to fill
out a profile that if you call nine one one,
it will put that information on the dispatch you person's screen.
It's smart nine one one dot com smart nine one
one dot com. You can go in there fill out
information like allergies, household information, and if the dispatch center

(26:40):
supports that technology, they can actually see that information when
you call in, So I'll link that up on the
website rich on tech dot tv. Also on the website,
if you go there, you can get show notes. This
is episode one hundred twenty eight, So if you go
to the website you can see the show notes for
everything I mentioned, including thes how you can listen to

(27:01):
the show, how you can subscribe to the podcast, and
of course how to get in touch with the show.
The phone number is triple eight Rich one oh one
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You can also go to the website and leave your
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(27:22):
message right to my screen. All right, as we got
a minute before we got to go to break, I'll
do this quick quick quick question here. Let's see here
Dave from California Rights and I got a question about
selling home phone. So if I wanted to get rid
of our landline, can the number we've had for forty
years be added or forwarded to a cell phone? Check

(27:43):
out porting it the idea of porting it to a
virtual service. There's a website called number barn dot com.
Number barn dot com. You can port it there and
basically do a bunch of things with it from there,
like forward it to another number or just keep it there.
And so it depends how much you want to pay.
It's two dollars a month for starting prices. That'll just

(28:05):
keep the number active in your name, because once you
get rid of this number.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
It's not easy to get back.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
So if you've had it for a long time, that's
something you probably want to do again. Number barn dot com.
All right, coming up, I will tell you how AT
and T has a new feature to help you lock
down your line if you don't want someone else to
steal it from under you. This is rich on Tech.
Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging

(28:31):
out with you, talking technology at triple eight rich one
on one eight eight eight seven four to two four
one zero one. AT and T has this new wireless
account lock feature that lets you prevent any changes that
are not authorized to your AT and T account, which
is uh simswaps, any device swaps. So this is really

(28:56):
for simswap attacks. So this is when someone basically takes
over your cellular account, either changes your number to their
device or physically removes a SIM card and puts it
into another device. So this was a big problem. Both
Verizon and T Mobile have ways of preventing this. AT
and T was a notable holdout, but now they have it.

(29:18):
So it's called wireless account lock. You can toggle it
on in the my AT and T app look for
the toggle switch. You can lock or unlock the account
at any time. The main thing is if you turn
on this lock, you're not gonna be able to switch phones,
right like, you wouldn't be able to pourt out your
phone number to a different carrier, and you would not

(29:39):
be able to upgrade your smartphone. So with that in mind,
you would have to turn this off before you want
it to make any of those changes. That's the main
thing you need to know. It doesn't really change anything else.
But AT and T says that most of this fraud
happens when someone pretends to be you, so they might
call like AT and T and say, hey, you know
this is me and I'm here's my They gather all

(30:01):
this information about your account from somewhere online, mostly from
data breaches or if they trick you into handing it
over to them, and then they use that and they
call and then by the way. Once they have your
phone number, they go in and start hacking all of
your other accounts, like your bank account, your crypto account,
your email. Because now they have control of your phone number,
that means they have control of your two factor authentication codes.

(30:22):
They can get those. So this was a big problem.
In some cases. Even employees at the wireless stores were
in on it. And so if you enable this wireless
account lock on AT and T, not even their employees
can override it. So it's really smart and you should
probably do it if you're not going to be changing
your phone or anything, just to give you a secondary

(30:43):
layer of protection. I think the carriers have gotten some
more layers of protection built in, but this is a
new one that just really locks down everything and says
no changes to this account unless I go in and
turn this off. So I made a whole tutorial on
my website, rich on tech dot TV. If you go there,
look for the story that says AT and T ads

(31:04):
simswap protection. And I've put the instructions for not only
AT and T, but also Verizon T Mobile, and then
I've linked up instructions for Cricket, Google five, Mint Mobile,
Spectrum Mobile, US Mobile, Visible and Exfinity. Almost all the
carriers have some sort of provision of protecting your account,
whether it is a pin code on your account or

(31:27):
this physical lock on your account. Well physical, I guess
it's a virtual lock, but I would check it out
for sure.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
Uh, let's go to Dan in San Francisco. Dan, you're
on with Rich.

Speaker 10 (31:39):
Hey, let's thanks for taking my call.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
Sure, what's up?

Speaker 10 (31:41):
Well, I've got an iPhone twelve Pro and just recently
the flashlight and the front facing I guess I don't know.
The main cameras stopped working. I checked my software is
all up to date, there's no obstructions. That's hoping you
can help me.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
With that, and both of those things just stopped working. Yeah,
the front.

Speaker 10 (32:04):
Colt my selfie cam does still work, and I've tried
it on I've tried the camera option on other apps
like Facebook and Instagram, and and the camera works there,
but it's just not on the It won't work on.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
The camera on the regular camera.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
Okay, So it's not a physical hardware thing. It sounds
like it's a software thing. What about the flashlight you
said that doesn't work?

Speaker 2 (32:28):
Yeah, and how is that? Okay? So when you how
are you toggling on the flashlight on.

Speaker 10 (32:35):
The on the home screen. There's a little button down
on the bottom left when I when I touch it,
I feel that the vibration right, but the light doesn't
come on.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
Okay, Well, so it sounds like your flashlight could be
at a low setting. That could be Number one. Have
you tried swiping from the upper right hand corner to
bring up control center on your phone?

Speaker 4 (32:57):
I have not.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
Okay, So when your phone is when you're looking at
your phone, there's a way to swipe from the upper
right hand corner and it brings a whole bunch of
settings up.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
Do you see all those.

Speaker 10 (33:09):
I can find it? Okay, I'm talking on.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
Okay, got it? Okay, So what I would do is
just check to see if the flashlight. If you swipe
from the upper right hand corner when your phone is unlocked,
you'll get what's called the control center. There should be
a flashlight icon in there. Tap that flashlight icon and
see if it triggers your flashlight. And then also you
can press and hold that icon once it's well, depends
on the version of your phone. It used to be

(33:31):
press and hold. Now mine brings up a secondary thing.
But you can either press and hold or you can
see the little there's like a little section that shows
up with the with the animation of a flashlight, and
if you press that up and down, you'll notice that
it adjusts the intense intensity of the flashlight the brightness.
So you may have yours all the way turned down.

(33:52):
I think that's what's happening here. It sounds like to me,
but but that's what I would do, is check to
see if you can. If you can toggle it on
from control center. You may have to add that control
in settings if it's not there, but it should be
there by default. So that's the two things there for
the camera. Since it's working in the other apps. It
does sound like it's some sort of software issue. So

(34:13):
if you have gone through everything like restarting your phone,
which you've tried it sounds like, I hope you've tried,
that you've updated your software, which it sounds like you've tried.
I would make sure there's no screen time restrictions on anything,
make sure you have no accessibility features turned on. The
thing that you probably want to do first is there
is an option in settings called reset all settings, and

(34:35):
so you can go to Settings General and then it
says transfer or reset phone. I know it sounds scary,
but if you tap that, there is an option called reset.
You tap that, and then there's an option called reset
all Settings. I really wish that Apple would not hide
this so deep into the settings, because if you see reset,
you're not going to use it right because it sounds

(34:57):
really scary. It sounds like it's going to erase everything
on your phone. But if you tap reset all Settings,
that's going to reset almost every personalized feature on your
phone without resetting or without erasing any data. Try that first,
restart your phone, see if the flashlight and the camera
work properly there. If none of that works, then I
would do what's called a erase all content in Settings.

(35:19):
That's going to actually factory format your phone back to
clearing everything out.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
And if things still don't work, make.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
Sure your phone's backed up before you do that, because
you will have to bring the data back over. If
it still doesn't work after that, you got to bring
it to an Apple store. Eighty to eight rich one
on one eight eight eight seven four to two four
one zero one more rich on Tech after this, Welcome
back to rich On Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out
with you talking technology at Triple eight Rich one O

(35:50):
one eight eight eight seven four to two four one
zero one. Hope you're getting or got some time with
your friends and family this weekend, this fourth of July weekend.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
You know, we saw some fireworks. That's always fun.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
It's been a while since we saw him up close
and personal like that, so kind of neat this hour,
We've got Selim benaiatt Nothing's AI and Services product lead
to talk about this new phone we were talking about
earlier in the show, the Nothing Phone three.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
It's pretty unique.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
It's got some unique features, got unique software AI built in,
and a lot of it is engineered to help you
use your phone less, like all this doom scrolling we
do all day, which I know we're all guilty of it.
But this phone is it's got a little display on
the back that will show your notifications and things so
that you can leave it face down and focus on

(36:44):
the people around you.

Speaker 2 (36:46):
Let's go to let's go to. Well, we got Frank.
It looks like someone dropped off. We got Frank. Frank.
You're on with Rich. Oh, hi, Rich, this is thank job.

Speaker 4 (36:57):
I'm kling to find out if there's a good replacement
for landline. I've been told of magic Jack as an option.
I was wondering what you think of it, or you know,
have a better option than using you know to replace
the land line home?

Speaker 1 (37:09):
Uh, well, what are you trying to do with this
landline phone? Like, are you just trying to have like
a just your old line just with a with Wi
Fi or whatever?

Speaker 4 (37:20):
Well, no, that the landline. Let me, I've had here
for many years, I've lived here. But the main reason
I want to keep it is because it's hooked up
to my home alarm system and becomes a much bigger
tack for me to get rid of it and go
with a different alarm system. So I want I want
to have a landline that works when somebody calls in
from you know, any number.

Speaker 2 (37:40):
Okay, but but.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
Uh well magic Jack has been around for a long
time and it's it. You know, it works as advertised.
Let me see how much of it is these days
thirty five dollars Now. The question with magic jacket used
to require plugging into a computer for it to work.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
So uh, use your.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
High speed internet to connect to your magic Jack device?
Do they make a standalone device? Uh?

Speaker 4 (38:07):
To be honest with you, I haven't looked at all
the options.

Speaker 1 (38:09):
Yeah, because I'm looking at this and it looks like
you do have to connect this to some sort of computer, which, yeah,
so that would be a little bit more tricky because
you're gonna have to plug this into your computer's USB
and then plug the Ethernet into it, and then plug
your phone line into it. So it's kind of like
you need it sounds as far as I remember, this

(38:31):
used to work. You had to have a computer running
to basically work with the service the whole time. So
I think a better solution for what you're talking about
would probably be Umaoma.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
Have you heard of that?

Speaker 4 (38:43):
No?

Speaker 1 (38:43):
Okay, So Uma they make a standalone device that you
can plug in and it's just works as I mean,
it does exactly what you're talking about. It just replaces
your phone line with this device. So you plug in
the device into your wall. You can either connect it
via Wi Fi or you can connect it with an
Ethernet and then you plug your phone into there and

(39:05):
that's it. It just works like a regular phone line
after that, so you can get you know, depends on
the product you get. Let's see here, I'm looking for
the basic home phone service is so the device is
one hundred dollars one time costs and the monthly phone
service is free. You have to pay taxes and fees

(39:26):
which usually run about ten to twelve dollars a month.
So that's probably what i'd recommend if I were you,
just for the ease of use. And then you can
also use this as a regular phone line as well,
so you get unlimited calling and things like that. Oh
right now they've got the fifty dollars off, so you
can even do that as well. So the website, the
website Frank is umaooma dot com. I think that's probably

(39:49):
going to be a better bet than the magic jack
for what you're talking about.

Speaker 4 (39:53):
Thank you very much for the advice. And as far
as keep being able to keep the same number, you think.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
Yes, you have to do what it's called a poor
in so you need to. You know, you'll pour out
the phone number from your old device and you'll pour
it into the new device. I would go on whatever
carrier you have right now for that phone number. I
would Google poured out and see what the instructions are
because sometimes they're very specific, and then I would go
to the UMA website and just google port in phone

(40:22):
number UMA and get the instructions there. Read all those
instructions thoroughly, and then you can pourt out your number
from one place and bring it over to the other place.

Speaker 2 (40:31):
It's a pretty simple situation.

Speaker 4 (40:34):
All right, Great, thank you very much for good advice.

Speaker 1 (40:36):
All right, Frank Enjoy great question. Always when people want
to keep their phone number or switch it. You know,
it's funny. I've taken for granted that I've known about
UMA for so long. I mean, Magic Jack's been around
for a very long time as well, but it's still
like not everyone knows about it. Let's see here we have,
Greg writes in from Huntington Beach, Hey Rich with prime

(40:57):
days coming soon, What are the best sounding Bluetooth always
canceling headphones you'd recommend for top sound quality and value?
Great question, Greg, I test them all, although I haven't
tested the top choice, which is what everyone loves.

Speaker 2 (41:10):
I've tested the.

Speaker 1 (41:11):
Older model, but I haven't gotten around to the newer
model yet. But I would say overall, the top noise
canceling headphones, according to pretty much everyone I know, are
the Sony wh one thousand x six. They just came
out best overall, incredible sound, great noise cancelation, very comfortable.

(41:32):
Those are what pretty much everyone I know uses on
the long international flights we're taking, so i'd say that's
number one. They're expensive though they're not cheap, but you
were saying, you know, over Prime Day they'll probably maybe
they'll go on sale. The problem with Prime Day a
lot of times the main item does not go on
sale like the current year. It's usually the year's past.

(41:53):
But you'd be just fine with the XM fives or
fours or whatever. But that's number one. Number two obviously
the Bows quiet comfort headphones. Those are perennial favorites. Everyone
loves those. They're gonna be just as expensive, but they
might go on sale during the Prime Day as well. Now,
if you have an iPhone and you want the best

(42:14):
for the iPhone, the AirPods max USBC is really nice.

Speaker 2 (42:18):
They're brand new.

Speaker 1 (42:19):
They're very expensive, but if you have an iPhone, it
keeps you connected to that Apple ecosystem, and that means
if you have an iPhone and a Mac computer, they're
gonna switch seamlessly between those two devices, which is really nice.
They sound good, the noise canceling is good. Some people
are turned off by the fact that they're very iconic
looking those AirPods Max like you know, people weren't to

(42:40):
the gym and things people think is a status symbol.
I mean, they are expensive, so they probably are, but
they do sound They do sound good, and they work
very nicely with the Apple products. Now, if you want
something you said best value anchor Soundcore Life Q thirty's
are pretty good for noise cancelation and they're under one
hundred dollars. They'll probably be even cheaper during prime day.

(43:03):
That's if you just want something that's pretty basic and
not very expensive. Now there's two other pairs of headphones
that I think are worth checking out, depending on what
you want. The Nothing Headphones one which would I've been
talking about today on the show Cool Design.

Speaker 2 (43:17):
I think they have great audio.

Speaker 1 (43:18):
I wore them pretty much the entire flight there and
back to London, about ten hours each way.

Speaker 2 (43:23):
They sound excellent.

Speaker 1 (43:24):
They have physical buttons on them, which I love, and
they're very easy to understand, so they've got pretty unique.
The buttons on these things are something that you don't
really see everywhere. It's got a physical on and off switch,
it's got a physical button to pair them for Bluetooth,
although I couldn't find it when it was on the plane,
which was really annoying.

Speaker 2 (43:42):
It's kind of hidden.

Speaker 1 (43:45):
It's got a rotating button that also clicks, which is
great for volume. And then it's got almost like a
flipper switch button which can fast forward or rewind your track.
Is like skip ahead, skip back, but if you do
you press and hold, it is scrubs through your music.
If it's on a supported audio program like I don't

(44:06):
know which one supports. I try it on Spotify. I
wasn't really sure if that worked or not. I didn't
hear the scrubbing, but they say that some of the
audio apps will support that, so that's really cool. Like
if you want to rewinder fast forward like you did
back in the old day on the tape, so it'll
do that. And then it's got another physical button that
will activate your you can program it to do a
whole bunch of things like activate your AI assistant. So

(44:27):
those are cool. And they come in at just three
hundred dollars, which I know is still expensive, but a
lot cheaper than some of the other four hundred and
fifty dollars headphones out there. So that's another one. And
then finally Sos Ace. These are headphones. If you already
have Sonos speakers or a soundbar, you want them to
work with that. They're very comfortable. The noise canceling is great.
I really like them a lot, even though I'm at

(44:48):
odds with Sonos right now. But those sound good as well.
So gave you a lot of options there, Greg, I
think put them all in your cart, see which ones
drop in price.

Speaker 2 (44:57):
And I think you'll be happy with any of those.

Speaker 1 (45:01):
You guys send me so many emails every week, so
I'm just going to go through them this week. Down
from spring Hill, Florida, says I just bought an inexpensive
Samsung phone to use for calls and texts. I can
send text fine, but I'm not receiving texts from iPhones.
The store told me iPhone users may need to change
a setting to send text to Android, but that's not
realistic for my husband or friends. I can't afford to

(45:23):
switch to an iPhone. Any suggestions, don I've never heard
of a special setting that to receive text from an
iPhone user, so I'm baffled. I think that whoever told
you that at the store just wanted you to buy
an iPhone, and that's not the case. SMS is universal.
It works across every phone and every carrier all across

(45:43):
the world. So the only thing I've noticed, and this
is more of an Apple problem than your problem, is
that if someone is trying to text you that has
tried to text you in the past on an iPhone,
it sometimes does not go through because I message gets confused.
So what I would do, since you recently switch phones,
is have that person say, hey, if you're if this

(46:04):
text is not going through, delete the whole text chain
and start over, and that typically fixes the problem.

Speaker 2 (46:11):
Now, my wife will fight me on this one.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
She'll say, well, group text don't work with iPhone and Android.
I'm like, yes, they do. I'm on a lot of
group texts with iPhone Android. They may not work exactly
the same, and everyone in that message may not be
blue Bubble, but it's still gonna send the messages and
even reactions work at this point I've noticed. So it's
with our cs and all that. Now, what kind of
phone did you say you got inexpensive Samsung? I mean,

(46:35):
unless it's a flip phone. Look, there's no issue with
texting between iPhone and Android. The only issues are with
the people that are on iPhone making fun of the
people and Android.

Speaker 2 (46:44):
That's the only issue I identify at this point.

Speaker 1 (46:46):
Eight to eight rich one on one eight eight eight
seven four to two four one zero one.

Speaker 2 (46:51):
Coming up more of your emails. Plus I'll tell you why.

Speaker 1 (46:54):
Amazon is warning you to be careful. This is rich
on Tech. Welcome back to rich Tech. Rich DeMuro here
hanging out with you, talking technology at triple eight rich
one oh one eight eight eight seven four to two
four one zero one. Uh, just looking at an email
here from Let's see from Allen. He says magic Jack

(47:19):
does allow to plug into Ethernet. Yes, but let's see.
Uh hmm, okay, magic Jack requirements. We were talking about
getting magic Jack versus Uma. But it's interesting, Okay, Okay,
here we go. Magic Jack devices can be powered by
a USB wall charger or a standard there you go.

(47:39):
So it's uh, it looks like it needs a computer
like it used to, but you don't need that anymore.
So so yeah, in that case, I would say you
might want to just look at the price of each
and see how much magic Jack is for a year
versus service with Uma. Uma might be too much depending
so yeah, it looks like it plugs in. You need
like a little USB adapter. That's what that you USBs for. Okay,

(48:01):
got it. That's why I like having the email so
we can get real time feedback on some of the
things we talk about. Here two apps to tell you
about this week. Number one, Rotten Tomatoes has launched an
official app on iOS. And this is the This is
the website that a lot of people like for their
movie ratings. It confused me for so long, right, this

(48:25):
whole idea of Rotten Tomatoes. I always thought that Rotten
Tomatoes was a bad rating. I'm like, wait, that means
it's good if it has a good Rotten Tomatoes Like,
I never understood that with some proprietary algorithm that gives
it a percentage twenty percent, thirty, fifty, sixty, seventy eighty
up to one hundred percent, and the higher the percentage
the better. Those critics like that, and I think at
some point it's like certified fresh, right. And then they

(48:49):
also do the popcorn Meter, which is the audience reviews,
and so audience members can go on there and review
the movie and rate it, and then you get that number. Now,
most of the time those number can line up, but
a lot of times they do not like a movie
could be critically panned. You know, they don't like it,
but the audience loves it, or the audience hates a

(49:09):
movie but the critics liked it. So sometimes those numbers
can be very different. But anyway, Rotten Tomatoes does have
an official app for iPhones, So if you love Rotten
Tomatoes you live and die by those scores. You can
download this app and create a watch list of the
movies you want to see, discover the movies that you
want to watch, and I of course leave your own
ratings and reviews. They also have built in AI called

(49:32):
rt I don't know what that means, but you can
search for movies and things. I asked like, what's the
movie like back to the Future, and it said back
to the Future. Said okay, what's something else like back
to the Future. So it's still a work in progress
and I don't think this is as full featured as
my favorite app right now, which is called Just Watch.

Speaker 2 (49:53):
Just Watch is a lot simpler.

Speaker 1 (49:55):
This one will tell you Rotten Tomatoes will tell you
where things are streaming as well, so if it's on
like Netflix or Max or whatever, you can see that,
but just watch will let you sort in so many
different ways and also show you the stuff that's just
playing on your streaming services. So if you're only paying
for Netflix, you can filter all your movies and your
watch lists just by Netflix, which is really handy. So again,

(50:17):
Rotten Tomatoes did the thing that I don't like. But
they came out on iOS first and then Android coming soon.
I don't I mean, I get why these companies do it,
but Rotten Tomatoes is a huge company, just come out
with the iOS and Android at the same time. Why
do you have to make us android or it's just
Android folks in general wait, like, why give that one
experience and then everyone else has to wait? So again,

(50:40):
Rotten Tomatoes available on iOS now, Android version coming soon.
Then the other app that I want to tell you
about this week, which I really like too, is called
Hello Weather. So if you're looking for like a simple
weather app, I really like this one, and it's both
on iOS and Android at the same time. Now, this
app has been out for a while, but it just
got a total redo, major overhaul. Everything from the design

(51:03):
to performance they say is brand new. The app was
completely rewritten, so especially on the iPhone, it's going to
look a lot better, but it works great on the
Android as well. And what I like about this app
is it's just simple. You can see everything on one page,
like really easily. So if I tap into Hello Weather,
I'm looking at the forecast, it's got your main forecast

(51:26):
front and center right at the top, and then it's
got this afternoon, tells you what's happening for the rest
of the day. Then it's got this week and it
shows you nice, easy to see stuff and that's it.

Speaker 2 (51:37):
It's very, very simple.

Speaker 1 (51:39):
And then if you tap Radar, oh, that's where they
get you. You got to upgrade for pro feature. So
if you want the radar feature, you do have to upgrade,
and it depends on the price you know you want
to pay either monthly, annually, or one time. I love
how they say annually is the best deal for six
dollars versus thirty dollars one time. Well, in five I've

(52:00):
six times five five years, you'd be paying more than
the within the one time, so it's not really the
best deal anyway. If you're looking for another app that
I really like, if you like, if you like your radar.
There's an app called Tomorrow Let's see, it's called weather
by Tomorrow. And the website, I believe is it's really

(52:22):
tough to find because if you're searching weather online, it
never comes up. It's Tomorrow dot io Tomorrow dot io.
And if you go to their app. What I love
about that is they've got this great storm tracker on
there and you can see a map with the storms,
you know, the whole storm, any storm that's in your area,

(52:42):
like a thunder not a thunderstorm per se, but like
a tropical storm or a hurricane. It will show you
the trajectory of that storm. And it's really really good.
So anyway, that's at Tomorrow dot Io. I'll link both
these apps. Are all three of these apps up to
the website. Rich on Tech dot TV. All right, coming up,
we're going to talk to Nothing about how they're reimagining

(53:03):
the smartphone.

Speaker 2 (53:07):
Welcome back to rich On Tech.

Speaker 1 (53:08):
Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at
triple eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven
four to two four one zero one. John writes in
you're Rich, you touched on Uma this morning. I've had
it for thirteen years and I swear by it. I've
literally saved thousands of dollars by using VoIP.

Speaker 2 (53:27):
By the way, great show. Thanks John. Uh.

Speaker 1 (53:31):
We've got a guest, Selim benaiet Uh. He is Nothing's
AI and services product lead. I talked to him about
how the company is reimagining smartphone interaction through software and AI.

Speaker 2 (53:46):
First off, how would you describe Nothing as a company?

Speaker 11 (53:50):
It's a company that tries to do something different in
the consumer electronics space in a way. We want to
bring fun back to technology and bire creativity.

Speaker 1 (54:02):
Why have a such a unique design on your phones?

Speaker 11 (54:06):
Because we believe the light needs to come back to
the tech sector and having a more differentiated design that
has a certain opinion has true value in the market,
the value of people feeling more positive emotions towards the
HeartWare device.

Speaker 1 (54:26):
Tell me about the phone three specifically, how does it
make AI? I know you have a lot of experience
in that. How does it make AI more useful for
the average person?

Speaker 11 (54:34):
The sping we took with AI on phone three is
really to create a more calm, reduced experience for people.
Do not constantly need to check on my phone constantly
feel like they need to react to notifications. For instance,
we have Essential Search that just helps you find information
much quicker by swiping up on the screen and just

(54:54):
asking something a question. Then we have Essential Space that
truly helps you remember what matters to you at the
right time, right moment.

Speaker 2 (55:03):
You talked about that Essential search.

Speaker 1 (55:05):
Search is one of the biggest things we do on
our phone that's rapidly evolving because of AI. Can you
explain a little bit more about how that works on
this phone and is it your first stop to do anything,
whether it's looking for contact or looking up information.

Speaker 11 (55:18):
Yeah, it's a good observation. So first search truly is
a strong entry point into trying to understand you as
a user and trying to help you get stuff done
on the phone quicker. And so it works that way.
So you swipe up, you ask a question, and in
the first instance, we look for the answer on the phone,

(55:38):
perhaps it's a contact that you're looking for or an
app on your phone, and if we don't find it
on the phone, it gets sent to an LLLM that
then gives you the answer immediately on the phone.

Speaker 2 (55:49):
Do you are you saying which one that is? Is
it your own proprietary or it's.

Speaker 11 (55:53):
One of the lllms out there, and I'm not naming
any names that just because we're trying to use the
LM that will give the best experience for the user,
and so it could be any of the ones out there.

Speaker 1 (56:05):
The presentation specifically mentioned doom scrolling, like our phones have
just become a venue for doom scrolling? So how does
nothing combat that? And they put a big emphasis on
sort of being present with the glyph interface.

Speaker 2 (56:18):
Explain how you guys are tackling that problem.

Speaker 12 (56:20):
Yeah, totally.

Speaker 11 (56:20):
So we truly believe that today's devices are not here
to sort of empower creativity anymore, and so we try
to reduce the noise. When you look at the design
philosophy and the AI software philosophy, it's truly trying to
understand what features can we or what experiences can we
implement that will give power back to the humans. So

(56:43):
we want to put the user back into the center
of the experience. And I'd say the glyph matrix, for instance,
is a strong expression of that philosophy because you need
to take the phone and put it face down onto
the table, literally hiding the screen, and so this brings
more into the experience and and sort of it feels

(57:04):
like it's more care when you when you're then in
track with your phone. I mean you specifically said you've
got the feature of the flip to record, So if
you're in a meeting, you flip your phone face down.
What was the idea behind that, Yeah, it was for that.
It's if you're in a meeting or in a conversation
as we are right now. I think there's a big
difference in trying to record the conversation in your brain

(57:26):
or taking notes and truly being present us looking into
the eyes and trying to understand what the conversation is about.
And so for for us, the flip to record act
as almost your second brain, or act as a companion,
a helper for you to then be more present in
the moment with the person you're talking to.

Speaker 1 (57:45):
The gliph in our face. We've talked about it a lot,
but it's sort of evolved. It was used to be
lights on the back of the phone. Now it's a
digital display. Do you think that will bring added functionality
to it?

Speaker 11 (57:55):
Yeah, truly, it's not just style, even though style is
a big factor at nothing right but it's also functionality
and functionality towards again helping someone be more present, more
calm in an experience with a smartphone, your.

Speaker 1 (58:11):
Vision for the smartphone of the future. You've talked a
lot about devices anticipating our needs. Does that happen with
this device and will happen more in the future.

Speaker 2 (58:20):
Definitely.

Speaker 11 (58:21):
I think a good angle to look at what we
do in the Air and Services function at Nothing is
that we want to help humans tap into their innate
creativity more by being more present, by being more calm,
by having experiences that help them sort of understand their
own potential. And so definitely that's something we actively work up.

Speaker 1 (58:42):
So it's telling about being based in London. Smartphone companies,
you know, you've got a lot of them in the US,
a lot of them in China. You're in London. What
do you think that means for Nothing as a company?

Speaker 2 (58:53):
Yeah, I think it's.

Speaker 11 (58:55):
On the one side, obviously, London is a tremendous place
for talent, young talent. We have Imperial that just really
helps me build the AI function because we want to
double the head counting the AI function, And so obviously
London is a global melting pot. High diversity meaning high
diversity or thought meaning better product outcomes.

Speaker 2 (59:12):
At the end.

Speaker 11 (59:13):
And then I think also it helps us to remember
that we are still an underdog and that we still
need to fight to truly make that impact that we
want to do.

Speaker 1 (59:22):
I feel like I got a lot of that sense
on stage today that you're not trying to be every
other phone company.

Speaker 2 (59:27):
Do you think that can help you win? Totally?

Speaker 11 (59:30):
I think if you ask us said nothing, and if
you listen to our community, people crave a new, differentiated,
opinionated experience and a product. And so we believe, you know,
being away from sort of the brain trust that you
have in SF or a Silicon Valley, or that you
have maybe in other areas, that helps us have differentiated

(59:51):
opinions and thoughts.

Speaker 1 (59:52):
For sure, it is so hard to get people, especially
in the US, to think about different smartphones. Yes, we
are dominated by a couple of big brands, Apple, Google, Samsung.

Speaker 2 (01:00:04):
How do you get someone to try the nothing phone? Yeah?

Speaker 11 (01:00:08):
I mean if you look at our customers, especially net
new customers, the majority from then come from, for instance,
an Apple background, and I think a lot has to
do with the customer agreeing with the design and software
opinion that we have and nothing, And so I think
that trajectory will just continue, right, we will have an

(01:00:29):
opinion about a specific experience, which is a calm experience,
a reduced experience, and experience has put you more in control,
and we believe more and more people will start to
agree with that.

Speaker 1 (01:00:41):
You've delivered a flagship level phone at an eight hundred
dollars price point.

Speaker 2 (01:00:46):
Do you think you've done pretty well with that? I
would say so.

Speaker 13 (01:00:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:00:49):
I think we're happy with the outcome because the flagship
the phone free re represents everything that we've learned, everything
that we believe in and made real, made to be
holding your hand.

Speaker 2 (01:01:02):
Yeah, so we're pretty happy with it. Are you excited
to get this thing into the hands of people? One
hundred percent?

Speaker 11 (01:01:08):
I mean, trust me, when I saw the phones coming
down from the ceiling and people literally jumping and running
towards it to play with it, that was an awesome feeling.

Speaker 2 (01:01:15):
Yes, it's rewarding.

Speaker 1 (01:01:17):
It is rewarding, and it's a cool phone.

Speaker 2 (01:01:19):
Again.

Speaker 1 (01:01:20):
It comes out on July fifteenth here in the United States.
The website Nothing dot tech. If you want a link
to it, you can go to my website rich on
tech dot TV. All right, coming up, we'll take some
more calls to triple eight rich one oh one eighty
eight seven four to two four one zero one. I
see you waiting on hold. We'll get back to you
right after this. Welcome back to rich On Tech. So

(01:01:45):
the stuff you don't see that happens during the breaks.
Kim and I are sitting here figuring out RCS because
we had that email about you know, the RCS not
going through, and Kim says, no, there's definitely issues with it.
I said, no, there should not be, and so I
got the Nothing phone and I've been texting Kim our
call screener with you know, the messages app, and it's

(01:02:08):
really funny because some of the messages are going through
as RCS and some are going through as SMS. And
so I said, all right, let me try to send
you a big file, like a video file and see
if that comes through. And she said, yes, it came
out good. Not the size of a pinhead and fuzzy.
It's a huge improvement over what I used to get
from Android.

Speaker 2 (01:02:25):
So I don't know why.

Speaker 1 (01:02:27):
It's like I think it maybe RCS depends on the
speed of your of your signal, but it's just it's
like we're in a studio here, and things are there's
not a very good signal with anything.

Speaker 2 (01:02:38):
But anyway, so we did.

Speaker 1 (01:02:40):
We're able to send between iPhone and Android a full video,
full resolution, so it is. It does work. I knew
it worked. I just you know, I need to like
sometimes verify these things. Verra in Hopland, California.

Speaker 2 (01:02:53):
What's up? What can we help you with?

Speaker 1 (01:02:55):
Hi?

Speaker 14 (01:02:55):
Thank you taking my call. Yeah, I have a printer.
I'm looking for a recommendation on a direct USB printer
where I can print directly from my USB drive. I
have three printers that always don't work most of times
don't work with my computer, and I'm looking for something
under three hundred dollars a direct USB printer.

Speaker 1 (01:03:19):
So you want to print from a USB flash drive, right,
and not go.

Speaker 14 (01:03:23):
Through my computer because something's wrong with my program.

Speaker 2 (01:03:26):
Okay, what about your phone? Do you need to print
from that? No?

Speaker 1 (01:03:29):
No, so just you just want to plug in the
little drive and print correct. Okay, Well, I would recommend
a printer that has Obviously you need one with USB
and then you need one that has I would probably
want something that has a screen because you know, that
makes it easier to see what's on that little drive
to print it and select it, right, Do you have

(01:03:50):
a preference for laser color anything like that?

Speaker 14 (01:03:56):
Just cheaper, the cheapest possible, because I've seen him for
like five hundred dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:04:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:04:01):
Well, I mean, look, I mean do you well, do
you want laser or inkjet? That's the big question. I guess, okay, inkjet? Okay,
So I think the the ink jets.

Speaker 2 (01:04:11):
I mean, look, it's.

Speaker 1 (01:04:12):
You know, the Brother printers fare really well, and I
think that that's you know, that's what I've had for
a long time. Right now, I have an HP, which
I think is fine, and it does have the USB
direct like you're talking about, but I don't think it's
I'm I'm it's tough for me to recommend an HP
because it's just like it's there. It does the job,
but it's not very exciting, you know what I mean.

(01:04:34):
And I feel like I'm always buying something for it.
So the Brother I was just looking. I just literally
booked marks some of these. They just come out some
new ratings of the printers on in consumer reports and
I'm looking at this, let's see all in one cartridge.
So you don't want the ink tank, the EPs and
Eco tanks rate really well as well, so I would

(01:04:55):
I would look into those, that's the EPs and Eco
tank and they've got you know, different model numbers depending
on how much you want to spend. You said under
five hundred. Five hundred is a pretty big budget, I'd.

Speaker 2 (01:05:05):
Say, but nearly ended the front of the three hundred.

Speaker 1 (01:05:08):
Oh okay, well, I mean look if you okay, So
if I were you, I would just go to the
Brother website and I would just pick one of the
multifunctions that are under the inkjet multifunctions that are under
three hundred, and they all rate really high. I had
a Brother for about ten years and it worked great.
It was a laser printer. But I would look for

(01:05:29):
one of those that does that. I have to do
a little more research to see if it has the
USB plug in, just to make sure I've been doing.

Speaker 14 (01:05:35):
I can't seem to sign yeah, I can't seem to
fine when they say, oh, USB connectivity, but.

Speaker 1 (01:05:39):
I don't want that.

Speaker 14 (01:05:40):
I want to do but the print that's the problem
I'm having.

Speaker 1 (01:05:43):
Oh well, if it says USB connectivity, that typically means
it'll take a flash drive. If it has a USB
port on it, it will take that flash drive. I mean,
I know mine does, and I've done that before. In
a pinch, I usually print off my phone and you know,
just when I need to do that kind of stuff.

Speaker 14 (01:06:00):
What model do you have?

Speaker 1 (01:06:01):
Then, Oh my gosh, I've I'm not at my house,
so I don't know. It's a brother. I don't know,
it's just a I just got it at Costco when
I was there. It was like an impulse purchase. But
it works fine. I mean, it's you know, I think printers,
as long as they have the feature you want, that
little flash drive, you're going to be fine. The main
thing that I think you got to look out for

(01:06:21):
is really the price of the ink. So my advice
when you're buying a printer is, don't just look at
the price of the printer that three hundred dollars because
printers are cheap. It's where they get you is the ink.
And so online, I just spent one hundred and fifty
bucks on ink, which I'm pretty sure the printer itself
was like one fifty.

Speaker 2 (01:06:38):
So that's what i'd recommend.

Speaker 1 (01:06:40):
So without because we're on the air live and I
you know, I need to actually look at this and
research what I'm gonna recommend for you. I've got to
do that in you know, off the air, but I
can email you what I think would be best for
this out of these brothers. But I would say the
Brother Printer's rate very highly. As long as they have
that USB, I think that's going to be a solid choice.

(01:07:01):
If you want the Epsen Eco Tank, that's also going
to be a solid choice. Those are like the top
two right now. I'd say, hps, you know they're they're there,
and they're everywhere, right like, everywhere you go. You've got
HP printers stacked up everywhere. Are they the best? I'm
not sure. I don't really Personally. I think I'm just
fine with the one I have, and I'm not sure

(01:07:21):
if i'd recommend the one I have right but I'm
looking at these ratings and the the Epsen's are sweeping
the top, and so are the Brother printers, So those
are the probably the ones that I go with. The
Canons are also pretty decent, but they don't they don't
rank as high. But if you're let me do this,
let me send me an email hello at rich on
tech dot TV, and I will come up with the
printer that I think is the best, or I'll try

(01:07:42):
it in the break see if I have some time
to research and find an actual model number that I
think will be the best for you for what you're
looking for. Uh, do we have time? Let's go to
Kevin in Colorado. Kevin, you're on with Rich?

Speaker 13 (01:07:54):
Yes, Rich, I'm looking for a GPS tracker to put
in a like an enclosed trailer, a car trailer, and
I have from some pretty expensive equipment in that trailer.
And I keep hearing that some of these GPS trackers
are pretty easy to defeat by seeds, And I just
was looking for your opinion on which one, maybe, or

(01:08:16):
which way to go on that.

Speaker 1 (01:08:17):
So you don't want to do something like an air
tag like that seems too simple, right for this? You
want something that actually connects.

Speaker 13 (01:08:24):
Yeah, a lot of the new GPS equipment will actually
call you over the phone or give you an alert
over the phone to tell you if if your trailer
is moved or moving then where it's at.

Speaker 2 (01:08:37):
Yes, you want you want?

Speaker 1 (01:08:38):
You want like a heavy duty solution that's actually connected
via cellular twenty four to seven and has the movement
sensors and all that good stuff on it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:47):
Correct, Okay, right, so an air tag's.

Speaker 1 (01:08:49):
Not I mean for most people, you know, most people
are just looking for a very simple solution, air tag tile,
those kind of things are going to be just fine.
But for you, I think you're going to want to
look at something a little bit are powered. There's two
companies to look at, and the first is called landairse
dot Com and these are typically you know, the both

(01:09:12):
of these companies do stuff for both businesses like corporate solutions,
but also they make a consumer product. And the way
that these things work is it's a small GPS tracker.
It's got a battery, and it's got a cellular antenna.
And so this is not gonna be free. You're gonna
have to pay for both the tracker and also the
cellular connection each month. And that's anywhere from you know,

(01:09:34):
it could be ten dollars or more depending on the device.
So and then the devices themselves, they're not that expensive.
I mean, it looks like you've got thirty dollars all
the way up to one hundred and sixty nine dollars.

Speaker 4 (01:09:46):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:09:47):
The difference and the thing you probably want to look
out for is the power on this tracker. Is this
tracker plugged in all the time so that you can
get twenty four to seven, you know, anytime, or is
this battery off braided and the battery on these things
because they're running twenty four to seven, the battery use
could be substantial. And then there's a third way to
track which is a tracker that actually plugs in to

(01:10:10):
what's called the OBD port on your car. Like it's
that it's a little port like on the left hand side,
kind of below the steering wheel to the left. It's
like for diagnostics and things. So some of these trackers
will actually plug into there. Since you said you have
a trailer, I don't think that's the case here. And
as for thieves, uh yeah, thieves are probably hipped to
this kind of stuff there in many ways, is not

(01:10:34):
really a there's not really a way to keep them
from getting access to this thing unless you hide it
on there or you have it in some sort of
lock box that's you know, bolted to the device or
to the trailer.

Speaker 2 (01:10:44):
So that's another option if you're worried about that.

Speaker 1 (01:10:47):
But land airc dot com is one and then the
other one is tracky t r a c KI dot com.
I've not tested the Trackie but from everything I'm looking at,
it looks like you want to go with the track
Pro because it's gonna cost you.

Speaker 2 (01:11:02):
A little bit more.

Speaker 1 (01:11:02):
It looks like it's forty bucks, but the battery life
is going to be substantially better than the other, like
the main model. So it says it's got worldwide coverage,
advanced tracking, speed monitoring, geo fencing, it's got a strong magnet.
So those are probably the two that I'd start looking at.
Track you dot Com and landairseed dot com. Again, look

(01:11:24):
at the battery life, look at the cost of both
the device and more importantly, the long term cellular that
you're gonna have to pay for for these tracking devices,
because this is a bit of a bigger job than
something you would use an air tag for. You know,
if you got luggage thrown air tag in there, you know,
anything you want to track thrown air tag or a
tile in But these are much more going to ping

(01:11:47):
the cellular connection when something happens here. Good question eighty
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(01:12:08):
four to two four one zero one coming up this hour.
We've got more of your emails, more of your questions,
we've got the feedback, and we've got a guest, Trey
Boje uh smart shopping expert at truetray dot com. She's
gonna share some tips to help you get the best
deals for Prime Day. I don't know if you notice this,

(01:12:29):
and I'm not sure this is on your Amazon app,
but it's certainly on mine. Maybe I'm in some sort
of test group. But if you go to your Amazon app,
they added a new price history feature. So if you
go to any product on there, right by the price,
at least on my app, it says, and I'm trying
to load something up as we speak here, it says

(01:12:50):
price history, and you can tap it and get a
thirty day or ninety day price history, which is really
handy for Prime Day. So right on to the price
mindsets price history, I tap that and for this, uh,
this aura frame I'm looking at, they're using their their
rufus Ai and it says the current price of one

(01:13:12):
hundred and forty nine is higher than the average featured
offer price on Amazon in the past thirty days. Look
at that, Amazon saying to itself like here thirty days, okay,
it went down to fifty one dollars. Wow, that's really cheap.
So it looks like this is just from their AI.

(01:13:34):
So I wonder if you can just ask their AI
on any page. Let me try that. So I'm gonna
go to a different product here. Let's see, let's go
to this uh fire HD ten fifty percent off for
this uh this tablet okay. Now instead of tapping price history,
I'm gonna go there's a little rufous question thing there.

(01:13:56):
It is show price history. Okay, So I guess you
could just ask their A to show price history. That's
a really key feature for Prime Day because you can
get really sucked into Prime Day with like all the
pricing and stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:14:09):
But if it's not a real deal, don't don't buy it. Anyway.
We'll talk to Trey about that.

Speaker 1 (01:14:13):
Uh let's see, let's go to andrew website for the show.
By the way, Rich on tech dot TV, I put
links everything I mentioned there. Rich on tech dot TV,
Andrew in Orange County.

Speaker 2 (01:14:23):
What's up? Hello, Hello, I'm doing well. What can I
help you with?

Speaker 13 (01:14:29):
Well, I've got about one hundred mini dvs that I'd
like to digitize.

Speaker 6 (01:14:34):
And maybe eventually put them on YouTube something like that.

Speaker 13 (01:14:37):
But what is the best hardware and software to accomplish
that and to obviously get the best resolution?

Speaker 1 (01:14:44):
Do you have a do you have a player? You've
got a DV player.

Speaker 13 (01:14:49):
I have the old camera and it does play.

Speaker 2 (01:14:51):
Okay, Well that all the chords that.

Speaker 13 (01:14:55):
It works.

Speaker 2 (01:14:56):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:14:56):
Well, I did this project myself, d I Y, and
so I can tell you what I did. And things
have changed a little bit. I think the video editing
is a lot easier these days because of technology. But
I used the el Gato. It depends if you're on
Windows or Mac, but I'll give you both. But and

(01:15:18):
there's so many there's so many ways to do this,
Like just the way I'm telling you is the way
that I did it. But if you want to save
yourself a headache, just bring it to someone. They could
do it for you and put on a hard drive.
But if you want to do it yourself, which is
obviously cheaper and more hands on, and you know, if
you have the time, do this yourself. But I use
the el Gato Video Capture device and basically it's a

(01:15:41):
little device that just sits between your computer and your
your player, so it connects. Now, this is old school,
so it's going to connect with those three analog cables
which are let's see red, white, and yellow, got video
audio those cables and then basically you're just gonna capture
none of this. All this happens in real time, so

(01:16:03):
you're gonna have to capture to your computer in real time.
So you play the tape, you press recorder on your computer,
it records it into like an H two six four file.
So oh and this says it works with Mac or PC,
so that's interesting. El Gato and they're they're a big
brand in sort of basically do'll sell that on Amazon,

(01:16:29):
So you can get that at Amazon and also Best Buy.
And that's the easy VHS to DVD three and again
old technology. It's just you connect your camcorder to the
little device, you record and.

Speaker 2 (01:16:42):
You can edit.

Speaker 1 (01:16:44):
So those are the two basic devices that I've tested
and I can tell you they work. The software is
just okay on both of them, but it does the trick.
And then once you get that, you want to probably
clip your videos and edit them so you can use
any software you want for that, you can use you
know what's built into Windows, Windows movie Maker kind of thing.

(01:17:05):
Let's see, I think they changed the name on that.
Let's see, did they do that? Windows movie Maker, let's
see discontinued. Okay, well then I thought that they had
changed the name. But you know, you can download cap
cut and just use that.

Speaker 2 (01:17:18):
That's free. Again.

Speaker 1 (01:17:20):
Adobe Rush is also good, and you know you can
do that very easily to clip those things. If you're
on a Mac, you can obviously use iMovie or Final
Cut if you happen to have access to that software.
But then if you look on Amazon for if you
search video capture VHS to digital converter, there's going to
be a million of these things on there, and a

(01:17:42):
lot of them are cheap and cheaper than the two
that I just mentioned. The thing I will tell you
is that you get what you pay for, and what
you're paying for really with Elgado or Roxio is the software.
So you get one of these random capture cards. A
lot of times they are just not very good software
that you need to use this thing, So just be

(01:18:02):
careful with some of the random brands. But with that said,
they do make these little devices and I have not
tested them, but like the first one that comes up
is called I Record, and it's a little it looks
like a little black box with a screen on it,
and so you can plug your camcorder into that box
directly and then just hit record it or record to

(01:18:24):
like a memory card, and then you can plug that
into your computer and edit from there. So that's another
way of doing it. It's another option. But what I
like about getting the convert I mean, either way, if
this one works for you. I have not tested this
one called clear Click. It's a little bit more expensive. Again,
these are different ways of doing the same task. But
at the end of the day, once you have these

(01:18:45):
things recorded and kind of clipped and edited, you could
throw them into Google Photos YouTube whatever you want. What
I love about Google Photos when you throw these old
videos in there, is it actually searches for people in
the videos and puts them in your people list, so
you can you know, like for me, let's say I
had like a grandfather or grandmother in these videos, they

(01:19:06):
would show up in these old videos when I search,
which is really cool. So and you can also look
for places and things like that, so digitizing your old
stuff just truly unlocks it in so many ways that
just flipping through something that's analog or digital just does
not work. So it's it's really really cool, all right.
Vera did email me, and I did find I looked

(01:19:30):
at the printer that I thought was pretty good, that
is top rated, and it is the Brother MFC Jay.
Oh sorry, Andrew, thanks for the call. I just went like, directly,
this is how distract this is. This is I'm gonna
call this the TikTok effect. I'm literally sitting here talking

(01:19:51):
about Andrew's issue and then I'm just like looking at
my email and via the caller from earlier about the
printer did email me to follow up. But the Brother
MFCJ sixty ninety DW wireless color Inkjet all in one
three point fifty, I know she said three hundred underd
well at first set under five hundred, then she said
under three hundred. So if you want this one looks

(01:20:14):
like it has a dual tray. I don't think you
need the dual trays because you're just doing something simple.
So the one below this I'd probably recommend for you.
And if you look at it right on the front,
there's that USB port. She can plug your flash drive
into there. It's got a nice screen. You can print
stuff right from there. So that's the one that is
top rated. But I think you need the one right

(01:20:35):
underneath this, just because I don't think you need the
the both trays there. So I'm looking at this one. Brother, Okay,
here we go, brother, MFC J five eight five five.
That one has it as well, and it's two hundred
and ninety nine dollars. I think that's going to be
exactly what you need. Randy writes in I'm looking for

(01:20:58):
a good phone that takes great quality photos. Can you
give me three choices at reasonable prices?

Speaker 2 (01:21:04):
Absolutely?

Speaker 1 (01:21:05):
So you want affordable, I think there's two two to
choose from Google. Pixel nine A one of the best
cameras for the price, great software, great image quality, seven
years of support from Google. Four hundred ninety nine dollars,
and it probably goes on sale for cheaper than that,
so I would say four fifty you might be able

(01:21:27):
to get this four. Let's see if it's gone on sale.
Pixel nine A yeah, right now, it's still hanging at
about four ninety nine, so you may find it cheaper
over Prime Day, who knows. And then the other option
is the iPhone sixteen E solid camera. Not as many
lenses as I'd like. I think it's only just one
lens on there. But it's easy to use. And of

(01:21:48):
course you get Apple, and you get all the things
that come with Apple, which is, you know, the Genius bar,
the stores, the accessories, all that good stuff. That's five
hundred and ninety nine dollars. So again, good phone takes
great quality pictures. Three choices. I gave you two. I
think above and beyond those two, I think those are
gonna be perfect for you if you want a reasonable price.

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(01:22:34):
Checking the emails, Kurt writes in from Utica, New York.
You talked about the epsom Eco tank printer. I found
one on the side of the road, thrown out, but
almost a full tank of ink and it works great.

Speaker 2 (01:22:46):
Now that's a win in my book. I mean, who's.

Speaker 1 (01:22:49):
Gonna throw out a printer with almost a full tank
of ink? That's that's easily worth like fifty bucks that
ink right there, Kurt.

Speaker 2 (01:22:57):
I'm glad it worked out for you.

Speaker 1 (01:23:00):
See here, Sherry writes in and oh, I have it,
she said, I have the Amazon price history. Yay, much
easier than Camel Camel Camel. When I'm on my phone.
It'll be interesting to compare the two. I think Google
Amazon was probably noticing that so many people were using
Camel Camel Camel, and I'll be quite honest, the reason
why they like you using theirs is because when Camel

(01:23:22):
Camel Camel, when you pop a URL into them, they
get a commission when you end up buying that product,
and so that's part of their business model. But with Amazon,
if you're just looking at their their Amazon price history,
they don't have to pay that commission because you've stuck
on the Amazon website. So that may just be one thing.
I mean, obviously they're just maybe helping you out as well.

(01:23:44):
So I wonder if you could do this on the
Amazon website. Let's see here, I hate doing things live,
like while I'm on the air, because it's like it's
a little jarring when you're listening and you're trying to figure.

Speaker 2 (01:23:54):
Out, like what's he doing? But I know they have
that rufous thing? Is it? Okay?

Speaker 1 (01:23:59):
So there's a little section of the Amazon when you're
on Amazon and the desktop, it says ask rufus and
then it says ask something else about a product, and
I'm gonna say price history, and let's see if it
works on the website, and sure enough it does. Okay, Wow,
there you go. So if you want to see the
price history on the website, on Amazon itself, just look

(01:24:23):
for that little ask rufous underneath the picture of the
product and where it says ask something else, Tap that
and say price history. Let's see if it can give
you a longer price history, say price history over one
hundred and eighty days. Let's see if I can do that. No,
it can't. Ninety days is the max. But anyway, that's
a really handy thing. Let's see here. Let's go to Lewis. Lewis,

(01:24:47):
you're on with Rich. Bye, Rich, how I'm doing fantastic,
Welcome to the show.

Speaker 15 (01:24:54):
Thank you, listen. I'm an old man and I'd like
to do interviews. And I was wondering if you could
recommend a tape recorder, even though they don't call them taping.
I found out they don't call them tape recorders anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:25:08):
I mean, not since Radio Shock out of business.

Speaker 15 (01:25:12):
Something that's easy to use.

Speaker 13 (01:25:14):
I have side issues.

Speaker 15 (01:25:16):
I'm still on a flip phone, So I was wondering,
is there a recorder that I can use that is
easy to use. I bought one and I wound up
having to throw it away because I couldn't figure it
figure it out. I wound up re racing by mistake.
I mean, just anyway, I'm calling you to see if
you had any recommendations for us old guys. We're still

(01:25:38):
used to the old cassette recorders.

Speaker 1 (01:25:41):
Well, I mean, look there there are so many of these, now,
do you so you want some? How are you going
to listen to this?

Speaker 13 (01:25:49):
Well that's another thing.

Speaker 15 (01:25:51):
I thought I'd just play it.

Speaker 2 (01:25:52):
Back, Okay, Okay, Well that's fine.

Speaker 1 (01:25:55):
So you're gonna play it back off the device that
you that you're recording correct? Well, look, I mean the
number of the so you mentioned a couple of very
specific things. I'm gonna start with the thing that I
think is the best right now for most people, maybe
not for your specific situation. But there's a device called
PLoud p L A U D and what plod. Yeah, plaud.

(01:26:19):
This looks like a credit card and it's super thin,
and it's got a ton of storage on it and
it's one tap and it records digitally. Now, the reason
I don't think this one is good for you is
because it sinks to your smartphone, and so you would
need a smartphone for that to work. It also uses
AI to slice and dice what you're saying, you know,

(01:26:40):
whatever you said. You're doing recordings of interviews, so it
would give you a summary.

Speaker 2 (01:26:45):
Of the interview.

Speaker 1 (01:26:46):
So I think that's best for most people that have
a smartphone that wants something that does that really well. Now,
by the way, all the smartphones have this functionality built
into them. Whether it's the iPhone, whether it is the
Pixel or the Samson, they all have a voice recorder
that not only records, but also plays back and transcribes

(01:27:07):
what is recorded. So that's that's you know, I'm just
giving kind of big picture for a lot of people.
Now for your specific situation, I think all you need
is a digital voice recorder that sounds like what you
need to me. And if you go on Amazon, you've
got a couple to choose from. The brand that a
lot of the journalists use is called Zoom Zom and

(01:27:31):
so I would look at the Zoom. They've got one
that is let's see here, one hundred and nine dollars.
How much do you want to spend on this thing?

Speaker 15 (01:27:41):
Well, one hundred nine sounds reasonable.

Speaker 1 (01:27:44):
Okay, Well, this one is one hundred and nine. They
make a bunch of different models, but they have one
for I'm looking at what their most basic is. It
looks like the one oh nine is their cheapest model.
But Zoom is this is the h one and that
is probably the simplest, easiest, most widely recognized recorder out there.

(01:28:06):
And it has two microphones. It's got great audio quality,
it's got a little screen that you can see if
it's recording and things like that. Plus you can play
it back and listen to it as well, all through
that device. So I'd probably recommend that one number one correct. Yeah,
and so oh look at that, and look at this,

(01:28:27):
Look at this Lewis. It even has accessibility audio guidance
function for the visually impaired.

Speaker 15 (01:28:33):
So that might be oh my gosh, oh right, that's
why I called you there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:28:39):
That's a bonus right there, So i'd go with that one.

Speaker 2 (01:28:41):
It's called the zoom h one. Check that out.

Speaker 1 (01:28:43):
Otherwise, if you don't want that one, you know, they've
got like a Sony model. I mean, these are just
basically the audio cassette recorders that I had as a
as a nerdy kid, but now they're just all digital
and so it's like, you know, instead of a tape,
they're just recording. But this this Sony one looks really nice.
That's one hundred and twenty eight. Then they've got an
off brand that is thirty dollars, So if you want

(01:29:06):
that one, that's a super cheap brand. Rich on Tech
dot TV, Lewis, I'll link them all up for you.
Rich on tech dot TV talking Prime Day right after this.
Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging
out with you, talking technology. We're going to talk Prime
Day in just a moment, But first I want to

(01:29:27):
tell you about this.

Speaker 2 (01:29:28):
Chuck E.

Speaker 1 (01:29:29):
Cheese is coming out with something new, Chuck's Arcade. This
is a modern arcade that blends retro and new games.
So it's built with people like me and mind people
who grew up going to Chuck E Cheese, and it's
called all about nostalgia, but with a modern twist. You're
gonna get the classic games like Donkey Kong, Mortal Kombat, Galaga,

(01:29:52):
but also the new stuff that almost made me get
sick at CS, the VR game, So, oh my gosh.
Locations are now opening a couple malls, let's see Saint Louis,
Oklahoma City, I'll passo, and some of them have like
a pizzeria, retro merchandise and if you're wondering, are the
animatronics there, they are, but they're not performing. They're almost

(01:30:15):
like a museum piece. Like I think they just took
the animatronics from all the decommissioned shows they have around
the country and just put them in these new places,
like just sitting there, like it's like kind of weird,
like just staring at you. But each location is gonna
be unique, so maybe there'll be some some folks that
like want to visit all of them. But let's see,

(01:30:36):
there are a list of locations and details that Chucks
Arcade dot fun so I'm gonna go do a story
with them. They're they're building one at the Braham Mall
in California, so or in the LA area. So I'm
gonna go check it out. You know, I love Chuck
E Cheese, you know, well I did. I mean, I
don't go there anymore, but but I brought my kids
there for a long time, you know, and they were

(01:30:57):
liking that stuff. And to me, I just a kitty gambling, right,
It's literally like training your kids for Vegas like that
and the other one, David Busters. It's like this, It's
all what's the difference. It's all just like kitty gambling. Like,
let's be real here, and like for me as an adult,
I'm like, let's just cut to the chase. Let me
go to Vegas one. Let me lose my money fast.
All right, Let's let's get Trey Bosh here. Trey is

(01:31:21):
the shopping expert at Truetrey dot com, True t r
ae dot com.

Speaker 2 (01:31:27):
Trey, welcome back to the show.

Speaker 12 (01:31:29):
Thanks for having me back.

Speaker 15 (01:31:30):
Rich.

Speaker 2 (01:31:31):
So, did you ever go to Chuck E Cheese?

Speaker 12 (01:31:34):
I don't think I grew up in Massachusetts.

Speaker 16 (01:31:36):
I don't remember Chuck E Cheese until I think I
heard about it when I was in college in New
York City, so I must have missed it or something.
But there were similar places like that, and I have
to say, like the still animatronics in these new locations,
I'd be curious to see.

Speaker 12 (01:31:50):
It's like if it feels like a wax museum or not.

Speaker 1 (01:31:52):
Yeah, it reminds me of that movie. I didn't watch it,
but it's like called Five Nights at Freddy's.

Speaker 2 (01:31:56):
Did Bobo do you watch that? Did you see that movie?

Speaker 4 (01:31:59):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:31:59):
He's he did? I not seen him, but I have to.

Speaker 1 (01:32:02):
But you know the concept, right, Yeah, animatronics come alive
and try to like hurt people.

Speaker 2 (01:32:08):
Yeah, pretty much.

Speaker 1 (01:32:10):
But that's the thing is like these animatronics are creepy enough,
but the fact they're just standing guard there, like what
the heck?

Speaker 2 (01:32:15):
Anyway?

Speaker 1 (01:32:16):
Okay, Prime Day twenty twenty five. It starts on July eighth,
runs through July eleventh, And are we expecting it to
be a big holiday shopping event this year?

Speaker 16 (01:32:28):
It is going to be a big holiday shopping event.
I mean, it's interesting that for many years retailers were
trying to make something out of July because it's slow.
We're all taking vacations, we're traveling. So what Amazon Prime
did is kind of solidify July as a shopping holiday,
and then everyone else piled on top with their own sales.
So I do think it'll be big, and I'm seeing

(01:32:49):
some interesting sales that I'm going to take advantage of.
But then it's really important for shoppers to look around
as well, because there will be so many other retailers participating,
you know, in and around that week.

Speaker 1 (01:33:01):
So basically Amazon gets us all sort of like jazzed
up and ready to spend money. But then Walmart comes in,
Best Buy, all these other online retailers and say, hey,
come on over here, we got great deals too.

Speaker 16 (01:33:13):
Yeah, and that makes it kind of confusing for the
consumer too.

Speaker 12 (01:33:17):
You wonder where do I shop? Where am I getting
the best deal.

Speaker 16 (01:33:19):
That's the thing that troubles me a little bit about it,
because I get so many questions about this, like where
should I buy that laptop that I need for my
kids college or you know, so I think it's hard
to figure that out.

Speaker 1 (01:33:29):
Well, yeah, so I guess that's one of the questions
I have because I just default to Amazon for pretty
much everything, even though you know there may be better
prices out there? Is there a one size and there
may not be a right answer to this? Is there
like a search engine for prices? Like if I type
in the model of the laptop, is there one place
that's guaranteed to like give me like all the prices
that different retailers are not?

Speaker 16 (01:33:49):
Really, I think it's Google shopping. So you go to
Google Shopping, you enter the name of an item, and
it all wherever it's sold, whatever retailer, at what price,
it all pops up in one place.

Speaker 12 (01:34:03):
That's a really good guide in my opinion.

Speaker 1 (01:34:05):
Okay, so Google shopping if you want to look for
that stuff, And then what can we expect for this year?
At number one's four days? I mean, this is like
our wallets are just gonna be empty by.

Speaker 2 (01:34:14):
The end of this.

Speaker 16 (01:34:16):
Yeah, I mean I think that four days is potentially
too long. I'm not quite sure why they're experimenting with
this longer time, And the discounts that I'm seeing aren't
as deep as I'm accustomed to around Amazon Prime, so
it seems.

Speaker 12 (01:34:30):
A little bit more modest.

Speaker 16 (01:34:34):
But what Amazon has been sort of accused of or
made fun of about in the past is that we're
seeing sales in so many different things, so everything from
toilet paper to tech.

Speaker 12 (01:34:43):
You know, it's everywhere.

Speaker 16 (01:34:45):
And so I do think that if you're an Amazon shopper,
you're an Amazon Prime member, and you have some things
on your list that you need to pick up anyway,
Amazon Prime Day will be a good time to save
a little bit of money. Just something to remember though
we are seeing slightly higher prices right now because of
the tariffs, and after July ninth, of course some of
those bigger, scarrier tarffs might come into play, but we

(01:35:06):
won't see those higher prices for a couple of months.
So that's a long windy way to say it's a
good time to get some shopping done while we have
these these sales and just only slightly elevated prices.

Speaker 1 (01:35:18):
And I like the tip you you have for saving
for later because I always tell people to do this
as well, like you know, get the stuff in your
cart now. So there's a difference you have your cart
on Amazon that you've got your saved for later. Both
of those places will eventually show you if an item's
on sale, right they will, And.

Speaker 12 (01:35:36):
So I think that's a great thing to do.

Speaker 16 (01:35:37):
Wishless, same kind of thing and what Amazon is also
really good at is that when you go to your
cart below, they often say like, hey, do you need this?

Speaker 12 (01:35:47):
Do you need this?

Speaker 16 (01:35:48):
This is on sale and that's on sale, And so
Amazon will tell you what you if what you typically
buy is on sale. So they're going to hold your
hand a little bit and guide you through.

Speaker 2 (01:35:57):
That's smart for them.

Speaker 1 (01:36:00):
What about this new, this new thing, today's big deals.

Speaker 16 (01:36:04):
Yeah, so this is brettan new So I've not experienced
this yet, you know, I think, you know, Amazon is
playing around a little bit.

Speaker 12 (01:36:10):
They're trying to figure out what's going to stick.

Speaker 16 (01:36:12):
It sounds like lightning deals, which they've done for many years,
are still going to be there, but some of those
other kind of buzzy terms that they were used, they
were using in the past couple of years, have kind
of drifted away. So I think this is the newest one,
So we'll see how it goes. It looks to me
like it's a lightning deal but bigger, you know, like
lightning deal, but longer. I guess it's like the sale

(01:36:32):
doesn't come and go in a couple hours. It lasts
a little bit longer.

Speaker 1 (01:36:36):
And I was talking earlier in the show about this
new feature that they've added to the because we always say, like,
go to Camel Camel Camel to like price check things, right, Well,
now it looks like Amazon is one upping them at
their own game with this price history.

Speaker 2 (01:36:49):
Have you seen this on the app?

Speaker 1 (01:36:50):
You can you can ask for the price history from
their AI or there's a link to it on the
mobile app.

Speaker 12 (01:36:56):
I have not seen that.

Speaker 16 (01:36:58):
I mean, I usually use Camel Camel Camel or PayPal
Honey because they have historical pricing. But that's very interesting
that Amazon is doing that, especially because their prices go
up and down constantly, So maybe they are kind of
taking the bowl by the horns and trying to control
the conversation.

Speaker 1 (01:37:14):
I my theory is that because let's say, when you
go to Camel Camel Camel or or Honey and you
click their link, you're gonna have to pay, like Amazon
has to pay them a commission, right bright, Or if
you're doing your own price checks on Amazon's website, you've
stayed there, no commission, So that's just I don't know.
That's a theory. But maybe they're just trying to be helpful.
I don't know, I don't know.

Speaker 16 (01:37:34):
Maybe it's a little bit of both, you know, but
just remember because there are so many other deals out there,
don't don't stick just to Amazon. It's a buyer's market.
You have opportunities to save everywhere. So what I like
to do is to install at least one browser extension
from a deal site.

Speaker 12 (01:37:50):
A coupon cabin happens to be my.

Speaker 16 (01:37:51):
Favorite for this because they'll you'll see pop ups that'll say,
you know, you can get two point five percent cash back,
or you can get five dollars off of this, and
that occurs no matter where you're shopping, and then they'll
run coupons for you at the end at checkout. So
for me, if a tool does a lot of things
like that and helps me save money, I'm all in.
So just make sure you have at least one browser

(01:38:13):
extension installed when you're doing the shopping, and just pay
attention to those other sales that are coming. You know,
we've got Walmart's having a big sale, target Best Buy Coals.

Speaker 12 (01:38:22):
One that I'm kind of excited about is Dollar General.

Speaker 16 (01:38:24):
They're having seven days of savings and you think, why
does Dollar General need to have a big sale, But
they have seventy plus items for back to school for example,
that are under a dollar, and then you'll have things
on sale on top of that, and that's a great
way to save a lot on those things for your
kids getting back to school time.

Speaker 1 (01:38:41):
And I love all the names of these other sales,
so Dollar General, like you said, seven Days of Savings, Walmart,
Walmart Deals, Target Circle Week, Best by Black Friday, and
July Coal's Summer Cyber Deals. And then also, let's not
forget my lows Rewards. What are they doing?

Speaker 12 (01:39:00):
Yeah, so my.

Speaker 16 (01:39:00):
Low's Rewards is a loyalty specific program, and you'll see
this kind of coming and going within all of these retailers.
You know, they're coming out against Amazon because Amazon you
have to be a Prime member and that is a
fee based feature. And so what some of the other
retailers will say, well, you know it's for everyone, but

(01:39:22):
if you're a Walmart Plus member, if you're a Low's
Loyalty member, you get advanced notice or special deals. And
so I think that's what they're trying to do is
retain that customer but not be as strict as Amazon,
which I think is a smart play.

Speaker 1 (01:39:36):
And then right now I'm putting you on the spot here,
but right now aren't they doing like a dollar off
gas or something. Isn't there some sort of gas promotion
Amazon's doing?

Speaker 16 (01:39:45):
Yeah, And that felt a little bit too much for me.
I think sometimes what Amazon does is they play around
with too many things at once and it becomes confusing.
So I'm just not sure if that gas discount is
that production dip or helpful. But what they're doing I
assume is that they're kind of duking it out with
Walmart because with Walmart Plus membership, but you also have

(01:40:08):
to pay for you get gas discounts, and so Amazon's
may be like dinging against Walmart a little bit.

Speaker 12 (01:40:13):
That's that's my guess.

Speaker 1 (01:40:14):
Anyway, all right, we're going to leave it there, but
we still think the Amazon Prime membership is worth the
fifteen dollars a month or one thirty nine a year.

Speaker 12 (01:40:22):
For me, it is.

Speaker 16 (01:40:23):
I shot there frequently, especially, you know, I get pet
food and just beauty supplies and things like that. I
think that for every consumer, you should ask yourself every
year as you come up for renewal. Am I using
this as frequently as I need to? You know, remember
that if you hit the threshold I believe it's twenty
five or thirty five dollars when you order.

Speaker 12 (01:40:41):
You'll get free shipping anyway.

Speaker 16 (01:40:43):
So are you using those other things like photo storage,
Amazon Video, Amazon Music? If you're using all those other
features the free kindle book, then it's worth it. But
if not, just you know, minimize the number of times
you're ordering from Amazon. Hit that threshold and get free
shipping anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:40:57):
All right, Trey Bodge being expert at true tray dot
com t r U E t r a E dot com.

Speaker 2 (01:41:04):
Thanks for joining me.

Speaker 12 (01:41:05):
Today, Thanks for having me.

Speaker 1 (01:41:07):
All right, Coming up, we're gonna open up the feedbag
right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich
on Tech. We're gonna open up the feedbag in just
a moment. The first couple more things about Amazon. They
are warning about fake Prime renewal scam emails. Amazon customers
reporting fake emails claiming that their Prime membership is about

(01:41:29):
to renew at a higher price. It may include a
phony cancel subscription link that actually leads to a fake
Amazon login page, so be careful. If you're in doubt,
go directly to Amazon dot com or use the official
Amazon app. You can also report fake messages to Amazon
dot com slash reporter scam and set up two factor authentication.

(01:41:51):
Please fore your Amazon account. That's a big one. Amazon
dot com slash two s v T step to us
set that up. They call it two step verification. And
also I wanted to mention one more way to save
on Prime Day. There's an extension that's brand new. We
talked about it in the show a couple of weeks
ago when it launched, called shopback dot com. I can

(01:42:12):
tell you that I have successfully gotten eight dollars back
for my Amazon orders.

Speaker 2 (01:42:18):
So every Amazon order, if you remember to do it.

Speaker 1 (01:42:20):
You activate the shop back and it gives you a
dollar back on your Amazon order. Takes a little bit
for it to all work out, but so far I've
gotten eight successful orders. Half of my orders I forgot
to activate the or I did it for my phone.
But if you do it, you can get it. So
I'll put a link on my website. Rich on tech
dot tv and they've got all kinds of cash back

(01:42:42):
offers on all kinds of websites, but the Amazon one's
kind of cool. And during Prime Day they're giving you
five dollars back when you spend one hundred dollars at Amazon.

Speaker 2 (01:42:50):
All right. Time for the feedback.

Speaker 1 (01:42:52):
These are the emails, the comments, and the questions I
get from you. Go to rich on tech dot tv
to submit them. Laura from Portland rights in you went
to Mexico City.

Speaker 2 (01:43:02):
How exciting.

Speaker 1 (01:43:02):
I've been teaching myself Spanish for two years, thinking about
running away to Central or South America. Didn't realize Mexico
City was on a mountain. And you ate a grasshopper. Gross.
I heard Bobo says he doesn't want to eat bugs.
Happy birthday, Bobo. But I hate to break it to him.
We already do more than you'd think. I'm vegan and
I read a lot of ingredient lists. Let's just say
I've learned some things, so have I What does it

(01:43:26):
does it say grasshoper on ingredient list?

Speaker 2 (01:43:28):
Does it?

Speaker 10 (01:43:28):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:43:28):
They hide it. They put another name to it, like
a food coloring. Oh, like a grand food coloring. Is
a bug shell has like a beatle name of it.

Speaker 14 (01:43:37):
Well.

Speaker 1 (01:43:38):
Also, there's a sometimes at the airport they have like
cricket protein bars. Yeah, and you wouldn't know it unless
you read it and you're like, oh wait, I'm just
about to eat cricket.

Speaker 2 (01:43:46):
Yeah, I'm good. No, we'll stand firm on that one. Bobo.

Speaker 1 (01:43:51):
Ronald writes in, I've had simply codes on my computer
for months. You mentioned using it, but not once has
a code worked for me. Some websites don't even have
a promo box. Just today I tried ordering glasses from
Glasses USA. There wasn't even a spot to enter one.
But thanks for all your other great info. I'm really
enjoying the free Perplexity upgrade you shared.

Speaker 2 (01:44:09):
Ronald.

Speaker 1 (01:44:10):
I love you, but I don't know what you're talking about.
I went to the Glasses USA website. I tried it
with a code from simply Codes and it worked perfectly.
So I just go to the website simplycodes dot com.
I don't even let me just is that the right
simply yes, simply coodes dot com. Just search for the code.
You don't have to install anything if you don't want to.
But yes, there are there are It does work on

(01:44:30):
that website. Georgia writes in, thanks for having Molly Frank
on your show. Tech addiction is having a huge effect
in our society. Oprah once had families give up tech
for a week and share what they thought, what they
went through. I hope you'll consider interviewing Jonathan.

Speaker 2 (01:44:45):
Hyatt, is it?

Speaker 15 (01:44:47):
Hey?

Speaker 1 (01:44:47):
I don't know how he says last name, but he
wrote this book that I've read that was really good,
The Anxious Generation, about the teen brain and phones. Both
would be great voices on this topic. Yes, I Jonathan,
I did read to a long time ago, and he
said no, but he gave us someone else. He said, look,
and he was very nice about it. He said, look,
I'm very busy, but you can interview this person. So

(01:45:10):
he was very nice about it. You know that book
was very very well received. John writes in just listen
to your report on the NINA conference in Long Beach,
for being a retired nine one one dispatcher and former
NINA executive board member, I want to hey, Rich, I
just wanted to share a tip about emergency contacts on
your phone. I learned this the hard way when my

(01:45:31):
son fractured his leg to reach me. He had mom
ice saved in his phone ICE, meaning in case of emergency.
I've now done this for my whole family. Love your show.
That's a great start, Diane, But here's the thing. If
someone can't unlock your phone, they may not be able
to access those ICE calls, those contacts.

Speaker 2 (01:45:53):
So when you set up your.

Speaker 1 (01:45:54):
Phone, be sure to go into those emergency settings I
mentioned to actually set up your emergency contact those people
the first responders can access even if your phone is locked.
Ray from Honolulu writes in I enjoy your show and
I listen to the podcast every Sunday here in Honolulu.
I also catch you on WOR in New York now

(01:46:16):
and then thank you Ray Brandon from Texas, just once
to say I've been listening for years and really enjoy
your content, even as someone who's worked in it most
of my life. Let's see who else here? So many emails,
let's see. Oh, we've got tons of emails about Yahoo

(01:46:37):
email not working properly, can't read them all here. Let's
see here we've got Karen writing in on X listening
to the June twenty eighth episode. I heard I heard
a caller ask about digital storage for receipts and paperwork.
I use Microsoft's one note built in camera tool. It's
available on iPad or Android. Easy to annotate and automatically

(01:47:00):
search images for text, easy and free solution. And I
think we had one nice made my day email here
that I can't find right now. So oh well, all right, Yep,
can't find that one, Bobo. Do we run a little? Oh,
here we go, Kenneth writes in thank you. You have
a great show, one that provides a valuable service to

(01:47:21):
your listeners. All right, that's gonna do it for this
episode of the show. You can find everything I mentioned
on the website. Go to richon tech dot tv. Find
me on social media. I am at rich on Tech.
Next week we're going to talk to former Google executive
and author of Yield How Google bought, built, and bullied
its way to digital dominance.

Speaker 2 (01:47:38):
That's Ari Paparo.

Speaker 1 (01:47:39):
And then we're gonna hear from Samsung about their latest smartphones.
Thanks so much for listening. There are so many ways
you can spend your time. I do appreciate you spending
it right here with me. Don't text and drive please
for the safety of everyone. Thanks to everyone who makes
this show possible. My name is rich Demiro.

Speaker 2 (01:47:54):
I will talk to you real soon.

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